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n. - The phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms.

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  • It is easy to call these changes by the name allotropism, but not the less do they confound our hasty generalizations.
  • Perhaps they have not studied the mystery of allotropism in the emotions of the human heart.
  • Other arguments are drawn from chemistry, especially from the facts of isomerism, polymerism, and allotropism.
  • These facts of allotropism have some corollaries connected with them rather startling to us of the nineteenth century.
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